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Boy, 6, boasted about shooting Virginia teacher Abigail Zwerner

New court documents show the pupil confessed to the attack and outline how he took his mother's gun.
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"'I shot [her] dead', unsealed court documents show. While being restrained after the shooting at a Virginia school, the boy is said to have admitted 'I did it', adding 'I got my mom's gun last night'."

"The boy's mother, however, Deja Taylor, has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanour recklessly leaving a loaded firearm as to endanger a child....Ms Taylor will be sentenced in October and could face up to 25 years in prison."

25 years for being ignorant and/or reckless?
 
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RIP the man who combined Tupperware and firearms manufacturing.
 
Glock! The man who transformed handguns from being beautiful and elegant sidearms crafted from machined steel and fine wood into ugly, cheaply made killing devices assembled from stampings and moulded plastic! Were I to write a modern-day counterpart of Dante's Inferno, I would have him spend eternity being dunked into cauldrons of molten plastic!
 
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In July 1999, Glock suspected that Charles Ewert, one of his closest financial advisers, had been embezzling funds. Glock confronted Ewert, who hired a French mercenary[6] to murder Glock with a rubber mallet in a car park in an attempt to make it look like an accident.[7][8] Glock was hit in the head, but was able to fight back, punching the man until he collapsed on top of Glock.[6]
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A rubber mallet strikes me as an awfully inefficient murder weapon, and so it proved in the aforementioned case.
 
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Texas neighbors said they tried to sound the alarm about Houston church shooter for months

Several residents in Conroe, Texas, said they were afraid to be outside because the woman had displayed firearms and targeted, harassed and threatened them.
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"Authorities have not identified a motive in Sunday’s shooting, but they said a dispute between Moreno and her ex-husband’s family, some of whom are Jewish, might be linked to the shooting.

Two law enforcement officials told NBC News earlier that Moreno used an assault rifle with the word 'Palestine' written on it."

You had issues with your ex husband's Jewish family so you put Palestine on your rifle and go shoot up a Christian church?
 
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‘I shot my son': Bodycam video shows father arrested after shooting son in Kendall

Newly released bodycam footage shows the moment a father accused of fatally shooting his 21-year-old son in Kendall back in November was arrested by police.
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WTF

Police said it's not the first time David Contreras threatened to shoot his son. Last May, police said he shot at the ceiling, and on Halloween, just days before the fatal shooting, he pointed a gun at his son
 
Dumb MF couldn’t even properly insert the magazine for a photo shoot. That chicken wing and stock in the armpit says this is not his rifle.

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101st Airborne soldiers are first to receive new Next Gen Squad Weapon

Soldiers with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky are the first to receive the Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon.
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First new service rifle in nearly 70 years! Interesting to to see:

Bucking the trend towards smaller/lighter (based on concept of universal citizen soldiers and women shooters needing something easier to shoot well) to something bigger and heavier to defeat modern body armour.

People not at the sharp end will still have 5.56 - creating some logistics challenges (though presumably 7.62!is now out, so maybe not)

Army is moving ahead with this, other services haven’t committed yet.

The old days of NATO standard seems to be dead - Europe was forced to adopt 5.56 but not they are on their own
 
Just got the sad news that gun writer and firearms personality Phil Spangenberger died a couple of hours ago. He was 84 years old (I believe). He was a veteran staffer at Guns & Ammo magazine when I arrived there in September of 1979. Always friendly and helpful, he was true buon camarado. He was quite a Wild West buff and was fond of colorful costumes and staging shows in the spirit of Buffalo Bill, using the stage name "Rawhide Rawlins." He was a regular in the Rose Parade for much of his life. He also was part of a program helping disadvantaged children through teaching them about horsemanship. He will be sorely missed by his many friends.
 
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Just got the sad news that gun writer and firearms personality Phil Spangenberger died a couple of hours ago. He was 84 years old (I believe). He was a veteran staffer at Guns & Ammo magazine when I arrived there in September of 1979. Always friendly and helpful, he was true buon camarado. He was quite a Wild West buff and was fond of colorful costumes and staging shows in the spirit of Buffalo Bill, using the stage name "Rawhide Rawlins." He was a regular in the Rose Parade for much of his life. He also was part of a program helping disadvantaged children through teaching them about horsemanship. He will be sorely missed by his many friends.
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I’m very sorry for the loss of your friend
 
The healthcare avenger shooter used a home-made 3D printed Glock.

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I see by the papers that all sorts of problems are emerging with the SIG-Sauer P3200, recently adopted as service standard by the U.S. armed forces and various police departments, is having all sorts of safety problems with accidental discharges and such, involving high-dollar payoffs to the victims. It's pretty ironic: From May 29, 1911 until 1985 we had a wonderful service pistol in the Colt-Browning M1911 and the slightly improved M1911A1--rugged, reliable, extremely durable and safe enough in competent hands--so much for progress! The first Colt Government Model I bought in 1968 is still in fine fettle after digesting more than 20,000 rounds!
 
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